Julia went to the shelter to adopt a puppy. the dog that she fell in love with was two years old, however. julia had planned to spend hours housebreaking the puppy, but the adult dog was already housebroken. julia was afraid that a mixed-breed puppy might grow into a bigger dog than she could manage, but the adult dog weighed only twenty pounds, fully grown! finally, she was afraid that an excited puppy might jump up on her baby brother, but the adult dog must have been around small children before because it was very cautious around the toddler. which sentence best concludes this paragraph? a) despite her affection for the adult dog, julia chose the cute and energetic puppy anyway. b) although it was not what she expected, the adult dog turned out to be the best choice for julia. c) in the end, julia decided not to get a dog and started combing the woods for pet snakes instead. d) julia did not think the adult dog was right for her since she had her heart

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification